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imagine you are on the plains of africa 3.5 million years ago and your name is lucy. thank you for that. not everybody always get that little joke. doesn't play well in the midwest. 3.5 million years ago the earth was created. 6000 years ago, right after the babylonians invented here. that is about right. anyway, it reminds me of the gary larson cartoon with the little scenes in the cave party and the guy is looking out the growing going you are not the lucy. kind of a funny bit. so you are on they plans of africa and you hear a rustle in the grass. is it a dangerous predator or is it just the wind? if you assume it is a dangerous predator turns out it is the wednesday may have an airing cognition. a false positive. you connected a to b that it is an accidental correlation there. there is no causal connection but that is not a pretty yearly high cost air to make. lots of animals make them. you are just more skittish and cautious and below ground to noise. you have seen how animals are like that in the ferc, fin and feather shows on the nature channel and burning chann
imagine you are on the plains of africa 3.5 million years ago and your name is lucy. thank you for that. not everybody always get that little joke. doesn't play well in the midwest. 3.5 million years ago the earth was created. 6000 years ago, right after the babylonians invented here. that is about right. anyway, it reminds me of the gary larson cartoon with the little scenes in the cave party and the guy is looking out the growing going you are not the lucy. kind of a funny bit. so you are on...
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i think for most people today we look at hitler's whole life as one of lucy, as a madman. how are you describing ideology in a way that is not mad from our current understanding? >> yes, that's also a good question. i don't see him as a madman from the beginning of his career. icm as a -- i see him as a particularly vicious minded adventure who would always double the stakes whenever the crisis may have came, he would grab every opportunity. he was the ultimate opportunist. and he's a politician. and you can get quite far in a country which has been ravaged by the great depression, and which has this concept with regard to his defeat in the great war. but what i do think is that had a german nationalist, a more conservative german nationalist, someone who was a bismarck figure, he could have achieved the same thing in terms of grabbing absolute power. but i don't think he would have made all the mistakes that hitler did by constantly putting principles before germany's best interest. the gentleman in the back there. >> i'd like to follow up on the judge's question about th
i think for most people today we look at hitler's whole life as one of lucy, as a madman. how are you describing ideology in a way that is not mad from our current understanding? >> yes, that's also a good question. i don't see him as a madman from the beginning of his career. icm as a -- i see him as a particularly vicious minded adventure who would always double the stakes whenever the crisis may have came, he would grab every opportunity. he was the ultimate opportunist. and he's a...
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i am lucy eco of the library of baltimore. we are pleased to have you here for this special evening. and a special hello to c-span's viewers. when we originally booked manning marable several months ago we are very excited to have him here to discuss his landmark book malcolm x:a life of reinvention. we were heartbroken when we heard he became ill and passed away just days before that monumental book was released. we still wanted to honor him and his work and definitely is life. so thanks to a lifelong library supporter and our board member, mark steiner the aggression we arrive at this event tonight. we are really honored to have the people we have on our panel tonight. we know it is going to be a great tribute to a great man. before we get started we have a very special guest who we want to invite to say a few words, manning marable's stepdaughter, maria s. steiner. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. on behalf of my stepfather and the rest of my family i would like to welcome you to this wonderful event. i am happy to see
i am lucy eco of the library of baltimore. we are pleased to have you here for this special evening. and a special hello to c-span's viewers. when we originally booked manning marable several months ago we are very excited to have him here to discuss his landmark book malcolm x:a life of reinvention. we were heartbroken when we heard he became ill and passed away just days before that monumental book was released. we still wanted to honor him and his work and definitely is life. so thanks to a...
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lucy mercer. eleanor is appointed u.s. delegate -- i'm sorry. is appointed u.s. delegate to the united nations by president truman and she is instrumental in the creation of this document, one of the most important documents of the 20th century, universal declaration of human rights. we would not have that document if it had not been for eleanor's genius in dealing with the communists and with the other political players at the united nations. so let me just conclude by saying i personally thank and try to make the case in the book that eleanor's ability to turn the relative passive role of first lady into a vibrant one of activism stems in part for the close relationship she has with people who are outside of the normal aristocratic circle of an upper class woman. these people, and other people, too, the women newspaper reporters that she knew, women like ruby black and, of course, louis howe who, unfortunately, dies in 1936 -- they all help her transform a position she didn't really want, a job of first lady, and make it into a position of importance in the ame
lucy mercer. eleanor is appointed u.s. delegate -- i'm sorry. is appointed u.s. delegate to the united nations by president truman and she is instrumental in the creation of this document, one of the most important documents of the 20th century, universal declaration of human rights. we would not have that document if it had not been for eleanor's genius in dealing with the communists and with the other political players at the united nations. so let me just conclude by saying i personally...
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franklin lived increasingly separate lives after she discussed his -- she discovered his eau romance with lucy mercer during world war i. but they stayed together. why'd they stay together? well, one reason was mama said, franklin, you leave eleanor and those children, and i'm going to cut off the money. so that made franklin think about things. and then, of course, louis howe, his prosecute call genius said, franklin, it's going to ruin your political career if you should ruin your -- if you should leave your family. so at any point, they decided to stay together. we know that eleanor nursed franklin devotedly when he was stricken with infantile paralysis in 19 21. but then as franklin tried to recover from that and went off to warm springs and to the south to try to seek healing there which he never really succeeded in getting because he could never really walk again after infantile paralysis, eleanor starts her own career too. she begins to write magazine articles which she sold on such subjects as women in politics. she begins to get in the women's division of the new york state democratic
franklin lived increasingly separate lives after she discussed his -- she discovered his eau romance with lucy mercer during world war i. but they stayed together. why'd they stay together? well, one reason was mama said, franklin, you leave eleanor and those children, and i'm going to cut off the money. so that made franklin think about things. and then, of course, louis howe, his prosecute call genius said, franklin, it's going to ruin your political career if you should ruin your -- if you...
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participants in the crime to reconstruct this oceans 11 style highest that madcap sort of genius, love and lucy. already the novel has been snatched up by hollywood to create a film. >> that happens. no, you know what? yeah, people use the word novel interchangeably nowadays. i hope that's not my fault. you know, it will always be a controversy i think in my career, but i think most people are coming around to this form of new nonfiction. what's funny, when i tour in england and europe, they have no problem with it. does not even a discussion. why are american should was so upset with your writing? and i don't know what to tell them. it seems to be more controversial at "the new york times" than it is anywhere else. >> i wanted to ask you at the next big project when you're looking for the story, do you prefer to write about it, do a project, write about a story that is unfolding like "bringing down the house"? >> that would be ideal. i mean, i love the idea of getting events right when they're happening. but it's hard because at that point you don't know where it's going to end. you don't want
participants in the crime to reconstruct this oceans 11 style highest that madcap sort of genius, love and lucy. already the novel has been snatched up by hollywood to create a film. >> that happens. no, you know what? yeah, people use the word novel interchangeably nowadays. i hope that's not my fault. you know, it will always be a controversy i think in my career, but i think most people are coming around to this form of new nonfiction. what's funny, when i tour in england and europe,...